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• Summer 2019

  Will NEON Kill Ecology?

  Mark Sagoff

  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single science in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of Big Data. It so occurred to Scott L. Collins, now Distinguished… Read More

• August 18, 2020

  A Patriot Act Moment for Science

  Tayyaba Jiwani

  As the world fights a historic pandemic, science has taken global center stage. Many governments made tough decisions following scientific advice, such as enforcing lockdowns and closing national borders, that ground the… Read More

• Summer 2020

  Save America’s Dying Cities

  Carl Schramm

  What accounts for the success and continued thriving of some cities, and the decline of others? During the decade when I ran the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, as we developed a data-based… Read More

• Spring 2019

  Pending Memories

  Adrian Fernandez

  

  The latest series of photographs by Cuban artist Adrian Fernandez portray the backside of billboards situated in surreal landscapes. The complex structures and unexpected shapes are suggestive of Russian constructivism, but the… Read More

• January 17, 2020

  The Big Data Mindset

  Iddo K. Wernick

  Implicit in the widely held expectations of a bright technological future is the belief that a certain comprehensive knowledge about the elements of a system will allow scientists to grasp the rules… Read More

• April 21, 2020

  Learning From Engineers

  Braden R. Allenby, Mikhail Chester

  Like many professors, we have been trying to explain (online, of course) to our undergraduate engineering students the United States’ botched response to the COVID-19 pandemic. And they rightfully raise the question,… Read More

• April 16, 2020

  Where’s Congress? Don’t Just Blame Trump for the Coronavirus Catastrophe

  M. Anthony Mills, Robert Cook-Deegan

  How in the world did it happen? The United States has the highest rating in the world on the Global Health Security Index, which assesses prevention, capacity for detection, preparedness and planning,… Read More

• Fall 2019

  Powering Energy Innovation

  Christopher T. Hill, Sherri Goodman

  In “Clean Power From the Pentagon” (Issues, Summer 2019), Dorothy Robyn and Jeffrey Marqusee cogently make the case for using the pull of military energy needs to both advance more… Read More

• Fall 2019

  Sciences, Publics, Politics: Mindfulness Inc.

  Matthew C. Nisbet

  In February 2014, protestors from Eviction Free San Francisco walked on stage at the annual Wisdom 2.0 conference, interrupting a Google-sponsored corporate panel on “3 Steps to Build Corporate Mindfulness the Google… Read More

• Winter 2020

  Neural Glitch

  Mario Klingemann

  

  Mario Klingemann, 2018 Mario Klingemann describes himself as “an artist and a skeptic with a curious mind.” His work spans and incorporates a wide range of tools and technologies, including neural networks… Read More

• Fall 2017

  What Does Innovation Today Tell Us About the US Economy Tomorrow?

  Jeffrey Funk

  How does the future of technological innovation look for the United States economy? Experts disagree. Techno-optimists such as Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Martin Ford, and Ray Kurzweil claim that there are endless… Read More

• April 17, 2020

  Where’s Congress? Don’t Just Blame Trump for the Coronavirus Catastrophe

  You can watch a recording of this webinar here. The United States has the world’s highest rating on the Global Health Security Index. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may… Read More

• Fall 2019

  Dental Exam

  Shara Bailey

  The Tales Teeth Tell aims to introduce readers to the wonderful world of teeth and what they can tell us about human evolution. In the field of evolutionary anthropology, teeth have long… Read More

• Fall 2019

  Fragmentation

  Seth Clark

  

  Seth Clark’s collages and sculpture focus on deteriorating architecture. Usually designed for permanence, buildings are constantly being challenged by geological, meteorological, and other external forces. Clark enjoys studying the way they fall… Read More

• Fall 2019

  Expanding the CRISPR Conversation

  Carl Mitcham, Ruth Macklin, Yan Ping

  In “Lessons From the He Jiankui Incident” (Issues, Summer 2019), Xiaomei Zhai, Ruipeng Lei, and Renzong Qiu call for a regulatory system that would involve governmental authority as well as… Read More

• Summer 2018

  Beyond Patents

  Jeffrey Funk

  Over the past 20 years, patent analysis has become a dominant method of studying innovation. The number of papers containing “patent citation” listed in Google Scholar rose from fewer than 10 in… Read More

• Winter 2018

  Forum – Winter 2018

  Daniel Sperling, Edward A. Parson, Jane C. S. Long, Richard R. Nelson, Keith Kloor, Irwin Feller, Ben Shneiderman, Sallie Keller, Stephanie Shipp, Alan Jenn, David L. Greene, Laura M. Hartman, Lisa H. Sideris, Yves Gingras

  What drives innovation? In “What Does Innovation Today Tell Us about the US Economy Tomorrow?” (Issues, Fall 2017), Jeffrey Funk starts with an assertion that puzzles me, but after that… Read More

• Fall 2018

  Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks

  Julie Anand, Damon Sauer

  

  In this series of images of what remains of the Corona project, Julie Anand and Damon Sauer investigate our relationship to the vast networks of information that encircle the globe. The Corona… Read More

• Winter 2017

  Fashion, Animal, Sound

  Steve Miller

  

  The images in Steve Miller’s Fashion, Animal, Sound series are all X-rays. He began experimenting with the technology decades ago because it enabled him to re-invent the notion of a portrait by… Read More

• Spring 2017

  Glass Microbiology

  Luke Jerram

  

  Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary arts practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations, and live artworks. He lives in the United Kingdom and creates work across the globe. Glass Microbiology is a collection of… Read More